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David Ivor Davies ( 15 January 1893 – 6 March 1951 ), better known as Ivor Novello, was a Welsh composer, singer and actor who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of the 20th century.
After the war, Novello contributed numbers to several successful musical comedies and was eventually commissioned to write the scores of complete shows.
Novello was born in Cardiff, Wales, to David Davies ( c. 1852 — 1931 ), a rent collector for the city council, and his wife, Clara Novello Davies, an internationally-known singing teacher and choral conductor.
As a boy, Novello was a successful singer in the Welsh Eisteddfod.
Novello was educated privately in Cardiff and then in Gloucester, where he studied harmony and counterpoint with Herbert Brewer, the cathedral organist.
Although Brewer had told him he would not have a career in music, Novello from his early youth showed a facility for writing songs, and when he was only 15, one of his songs was published.
At the same time as his successes as a composer, Novello was making a career as an actor.
At about this time, Novello had an affair with the writer Siegfried Sassoon ; it was short lived, but in the words of Sassoon's biographer John Stuart Roberts, Novello " was a consummate flirt who collected lovers as he gathered lilacs.
Coward had by now caught Novello up professionally, despite a joint disaster when Novello starred in Coward's play Sirocco in 1927, which was a débâcle, and closed within a month of opening.
After beginning the 1930s with a series of non-musical plays, I Lived With You ( 1932 ), Fresh Fields, Proscenium, Sunshine Sisters, Flies in the Sun ( all 1933 ) and Murder in Mayfair ( 1934 ), Novello returned to composition in 1935 with Glamorous Night, which was the first of a series of enormously popular musicals.
The Times considered that it was for these that Novello would be popularly remembered.
Another model was Coward's 1929 musical Bitter Sweet, which Novello called " a lovely, lovely thing … sheer joy from beginning to end ".
The last of Novello's pre-war musicals was The Dancing Years, which starred Novello, Ellis and Gilbert, opened at Drury Lane, closed on the outbreak of the Second World War, and re-opened at the Adelphi Theatre, running for a combined total of 696 performances, closing on 8 July 1944.
This show was the closest Novello came to fulfilling his mother's early ambitions for him to write operas ; he played an Austrian composer-conductor at the Wiener Hofoper.
An admiring fan had stolen the coupons from her employer, but the court found that Novello was also culpable.
Not everybody was supportive ; Coward's sympathy was limited: " He's been fighting like a steer to keep going as before the war and hasn't done a thing for the general effort ", but when Novello returned to The Dancing Years after his release, he received " a rapturous ovation " on his first entrance.
Novello had written no role for himself ; the show starred the comedy actress Cicely Courtneidge and was a departure from his established pattern, balancing the contrasting styles of European operetta and post-war American musicals.

Novello and portrayed
In 1990, Novello portrayed " Dominic Abbandando " in the film, Godfather: Part III.
Actor Jay Novello portrayed Willie Sutton in " The Case of Willie Sutton ", a 1952 episode of the TV-series Gang Busters.
* Father Guido Sarducci, fictional character portrayed by American comedian Don Novello
Other performers, and the villains and victims they portrayed, included Jack Kruschen ( as William Burke and Trotsky assassin Ramón Mercader ), Jay Novello ( as William Hare and Dr. William Palmer ), Mary Jane Croft ( as Bathsheba Spooner and Madame de Brinvilliers ), Betty Lou Gerson ( as Agrippina and Lucrezia Borgia ), Edgar Barrier ( as Julius Caesar ), Harry Bartell ( as Brutus ), Hans Conried ( as Ali Pasha ), Herb Butterfield ( as Lincoln, Trotsky, and Thomas Edwin Bartlett ), Jack Edwards ( as John Wilkes Booth and Cole Younger ), Irene Tedrow ( as Lizzie Borden ), William Johnstone ( as Robert Knox ), Betty Harford ( as Madeleine Smith and Ripper victim Mary Jane Kelly ), Clayton Post ( as Jesse James ), and Sam Edwards ( as Billy the Kid and Bob Younger ).

Novello and Robert
Novello made his stage debut in 1921 in Deburau by Sacha Guitry with Robert Loraine, Madge Titheradge and Bobbie Andrews, and among other stage engagements, in the next years he played Bingley in an adaptation of Pride and Prejudice with Ben Webster as D ' Arcy and Mary Jerrold as Elizabeth, in a cast that included Ellen Terry, May Whitty and Joyce Carey.
For purposes of modern performances, the editions and completions available are those by H. C. Robbins Landon ( Eulenburg ), Helmut Eder ( Bärenreiter ), Richard Maunder ( Oxford University Press ), Philip Wilby ( Novello ) and Robert Levin ( Carus-Verlag ).
Jeremy Northam, who played a character based on Ivor Novello in the 2001 Robert Altman movie, Gosford Park, sang " I Can Give You the Starlight " from The Dancing Years, Hassall's and Novello's 1939 musical.

Novello and 2001
In Disney Studios ' animated film Atlantis: The Lost Empire released in 2001, Don Novello uses the voice and speech style of Father Sarducci to portray the character of demolitions expert Vinny Santorini.
The song went on to win the Ivor Novello Award for the biggest selling single of 2001, however despite finding renewed success by writing for other artists, Clarkson did not care for the audition based manufactured pop process which spawned them ;
In 2001 she won the Ivor Novello Award for best songwriting.
He won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Contemporary Pop Song in 2001 for Shining Light.
A Thanksgiving Service was held on 6 March 2001, in the " Actors ' Church ," St Paul's, Covent Garden, London to mark the 50th anniversary of the passing of Ivor Novello.

Novello and film
Novello made his first English film, Carnival, the following year.
The British film company Gainsborough Pictures offered Novello a well-paid contract, which enabled him to buy a country house in Littlewick Green, near Maidenhead.
In 1928 Novello starred in the silent adaptation of Coward's much more successful The Vortex, and made his last silent film, A South Sea Bubble.
In 1923, a British silent film, Bonnie Prince Charlie, featured Ivor Novello in the title role.
* Bonnie Prince Charlie ( 1923 film ), a silent film starring Ivor Novello
Jennings also wrote " Tears in Heaven " with Eric Clapton, which won song of the Year and also won the Ivor Novello award for best song from a film.
Don Novello ( born January 1, 1943 ) is an American writer, film director, producer, actor, singer, and comedian.
In 1916, she appeared in her first film as Julia Lovelace in Her Greatest Performance and continued to act in London and on tour, also making a few more films through 1922, including The Invasion of Britain ( 1918 ), Pillars of Society ( 1920 ), Victory and Peace, Potter's Clay ( 1922 ), and The Bohemian Girl as Buda the nursemaid, with Ivor Novello and Gladys Cooper ( 1922 ).
It won the Ivor Novello Award for " Best Song Musically and Lyrically ", and has been used in Amnesty International campaigns, a television advertisement and Alice Walker's film against female genital mutilation: Warrior Marks.
Cree Summer ( Kida ), Corey Burton ( Mole ), Don Novello ( Vinny ), Phil Morris ( Dr. Sweet ), Jacqueline Obradors ( Audrey ), John Mahoney ( Whitmore ), and Florence Stanley ( Wilhelmina ) all reprise their roles from the first film, with James Arnold Taylor replacing Michael J.
He is best known for " Cavatina " ( 1970 ), an evocative guitar piece that served as the signature theme for Michael Cimino's 1978 film The Deer Hunter, and for which Myers won the Ivor Novello Award.
The film is based on the play, Down Hill, written by its star Ivor Novello and Constance Collier under the combined alias David L ' Estrange.
Hitchcock included a similar scene of Novello for the film in which he is shown naked from the waist up.
The film has been developed into a stage musical which received its world premiere at London's Novello Theatre on November 15, 2007, following previews from October 16, 2007.
In the classical world, the British composer Michael Nyman enjoyed great success with his soundtrack for the film The Piano, which brought him an Ivor Novello Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and American Film Institute award ; the album sold over three million copies.
She re-teamed with Novello for the film version of his hit stage play, The Rat ( 1925 ).
Jay Novello ( August 22, 1904 – September 2, 1982 ) was an American radio, film, and television character actor.
In film, Novello alternated between pompous or fussy professionals and assorted ethnic roles, often as Italian or Hispanic characters.
One of his earliest and more familiar film appearances is in the 1945 Laurel and Hardy comedy The Bullfighters, in which Novello plays a Latin restaurateur.
Hitchcock decided to cast romantic lead Ivor Novello as the title character in his version of The Lodger, with the consequence that the film company, Gainsborough Pictures, insisted on a re-write to make Novello's character more sympathetic.
Novello remade the film in 1932 with a more dramatic ending, in which he throttles the killer, who is his demented brother, the " Bosnian Murderer ".

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